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ACORN was active in the 1980 Election with the "People's Platform" serving as its standard. [18] It led demonstrations aimed at both major party candidates; demanded to meet with President Jimmy Carter; marched on the president's campaign finance committee chair's home; and presented its platform to the Republican Party platform committee.
Sophia Kindrick Alcorn (August 3, 1883 – November 28, 1967) was an educator who invented the Tadoma method of communication with people who are deaf and blind. She advocated for the rights of people with disabilities and upon retiring from her long career in teaching, she worked with the American Foundation for the Blind .
The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) is an international collection of autonomous community-based organizations that advocates for low- and moderate-income families by working on neighborhood safety, voter registration, health care, affordable housing, and other social issues.
The Alcorn School District operates ten schools - three high schools, two middle schools, three elementary schools, one vocational school, and one alternative school. The Alcorn School District has a district wide 94.7% graduation rate, 68.2% post-secondary school enrollment, and $9,006.83 per pupil in overall expenditures according to the MDE ...
Active Eta November 18, 1949: Alcorn State University: Lorman, Mississippi: Active Eta Chapter chartered in 1919, was re-designated as an undergraduate chapter at Harvard University in 1921. Eta Chapter is now an undergraduate chapter at Alcorn State University established on November 18, 1949. Theta December 17, 1922: Wiley College: Marshall ...
John Houston Burrus (February 22, 1849 – March 27, 1917) was an educator in Nashville, Tennessee and Lorman, Mississippi.He was a member of the first class of students at Fisk University in Nashville and when that class graduated became among the first group of African-Americans to graduate from a liberal arts college south of the Mason–Dixon line.
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Active Beta Xi: 1955–1972 Wayne State University: Detroit, Michigan: Inactive Beta Omicron: 1958–2000 University of Houston: Houston, Texas: Inactive Beta Pi: 1960 University of the Pacific: Stockton, California: Active Beta Rho: 1965 Kansas State University: Manhattan, Kansas: Active Beta Sigma: 1966 Rochester Institute of Technology ...